A vibrant, varied area of South London, Clapham is a popular part of the city with visitors and residents alike benefiting from its huge 220-acre Common complete with Victorian bandstand.
There’s much to love about this area: the wide-open space of the common itself, Clapham Common Old Town and Abbeville Village, with its quaint shops, cafés and pubs. While Clapham North is cheaper, so more popular with graduates and young professionals, it’s close to the bars and clubs of Clapham High Street and also has its own convenient stations.
Clapham is within the London borough of Lambeth and has a population of 43,000. It has a large number of independent shops, street cafés and a market.
With buses, an overground rail service and four underground stations with frequent trains, the area is well served by public transport.
Clapham Common is a whopping 200 acres of green space, ponds, sports courts and a running track. Today, a venue for festivals or walking off last night’s excesses, while 300-years-ago it was wild common land where local folk grazed their animals or collected firewood.